So, references and meanings in 'Bring It On'?

"wait a minute, wait a minute"

It took me a while to figure out why that sounded familiar. It's from 'Please Mr Postman', the 1961 debut single by The Marvellettes for the Tamla/Mowtown label, and made famous by the Beatles and the Carpenters, though I think it's the Mowtown reference that counts here.

Here's the video; the line is at 1:42:

He references The Wizard of Oz with the red heels and wishing for home

pretty straight forward.

Is this song about Brian's wife Hollie?

edit: nevermind, i found the lyrics in the other thread. don't think it's about her

Has Brian been married before? Because he references a "first wife" in Great Expectations, and now he's singing about a woman wanting to go back on her vows.

It wouldn't make sense if this was about Hollie. I don't think Brian would make his marital problems so public. But that's just my take on it

"I hear that he tells you he can read your palms..." Fortune telling may be a motif of this album, given this line from AS: "You told us fortunes in American slang"

It may even be a call back to Springsteen's lyrical interest in fortune telling and gypsies.

This song is literally perfect.

The build up compliments the meaning of the song.

His (the main character's) wife is looking outside of their relationship at another man who she thinks she might want to go to and he's saying If you really want to give up our life and family together then go, bring it on, bring on this punk, cuz i know i'll love you better.

great message of the song and i guarantee the chick decides to stick around. love the confidence of the singer.

hey.

can s.b. please post the lyrics to this song?
thx a lot

hmm, i guess it could be a reference, but it doesnt seem quite so obvious and overt to me. regardless, i love this song (i mean "please mr postman," but also "bring it on"). no other version i've heard sounds as good. heard my brother listening to the carpenters' version of this song and i had to set him straight.

Awesome. Brian clears it up pretty well in the forum's own interview!

"I'm not the leaving person, and I'm not the person saying "if you want to leave me for whatever you think is better out there..." I was the person shot in the crossfire."

Haha, I don't see how that clears it up at all. So he's not the narrator and not... who? I can't seem to wrap my head around the way he phrased that.

It sounds to me like he's stuck between two friends whose relationship is on the rocks because of a 3rd person.

Unless (and this is way more out there) Brian's the guy who can read palms and sings cool in those songs... In which case this song takes on a whole new level of interest in my opinion because of the strange perspective it takes.

I have another theroy on who it might be about. But I'm not gonna go into it as I don't really feel comfertable speculating about Brian's private life.

I'm sure if you know a bit about Brian's life and you think about it, you'll probably come up with it soon enough anyway.

On a re-listen (specifically for this purpose) I did actually hear "he sings your way". Everyone should try it. It very well might be right.

EDIT: I'm not sure what I'm hearing, but I think the first word after sings is either you or your.